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Re: ~/.xsession not read



Henning Moll wrote:

On Sunday 16 March 2003 11:54, Matthijs Melchior wrote:
You also have a ~/.Xsession file ?
No, i don't.

How should ~/.xsession be called? By /etc/X11/Xsession ?
I took a closer look on it, but there is no code in it which calls $HOME/.xsession...

Regards
Henning

Try following the code with the following hints....:

From /etc/X11/Xsession:

SYSSESSIONDIR=/etc/X11/Xsession.d
STARTUP=$HOME/.xsession
SESSIONFILES=$(run_parts $SYSSESSIONDIR)

From /etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup:

if grep -qs ^allow-user-xsession "$OPTIONFILE"; then
 for STARTUPFILE in "$STARTUP" "$ALTSTARTUP"; do
....
REALSTARTUP=$STARTUPFILE


From /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86-common_start:

exec $REALSTARTUP

So, eventually, ~/.xsession will be called by /etc/X11/Xsession.


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